Nom

/nɒm/ · noun

Meaning

(informal) Clipping of nomination..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal) Clipping of nomination.
2. (informal) Clipping of nominator.
3. (informal) Clipping of nominee.
4. (transitive, informal) Clipping of nominate.
5. (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.
6. (colloquial) To eat with noisy enjoyment. [with on]

Example Sentences

I have already submitted a revised (in terms of format) nomination. […] In the future I will try to better organize my information (one message per nom, snip out excess spam if I post, etc.).

Particularly "Mr. Fox" now that it has an Oscar nom to boast about.

The obvious way to reduce the number of noms is to increase the standard.

Emmy-nommed composer Robert Prince died March 4 in Los Angeles after a brief illness.

I have a little request to make. When you kids nom, do you think you could make clear who it is you're nomming -- and maybe even include the article headers for the voters (and the judge) -- many of whom are not psychics?

Quite a big percentage of the anagrams posted here get nommed - IMO it should only be around 20% or so.

[to a baby] You are so cute, I could just eat you right up! Nom nom nom.

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• noms
• nomming
• nommed
• nomf

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